By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Journal of Engineering — The Boeing Company (Chicago, IL) has been issued patent number 8918978, according to news reporting originating out of Alexandria, Virginia, by VerticalNews editors.
The patent’s inventors are Kirkwood, Brad L (Kent, WA); Firth, Lee C. (Renton, WA); Widdle, Richard D. (Carnation, WA); Crow, Wesley B. (Bellevue, WA).
This patent was filed on December 11, 2012 and was published online on December 30, 2014.(…)
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